Deliriously Happy

Ok, so we ended up ordering Mexican food and staying in most of this weekend. I am still trying to catch up on work and it's a bitch. What can I say? 

My To Do List is very Long- but- it wasn't all bad. :D



I did manage to watch a little True Blood, (with the rest of the world), or so  Get Glue tells me.

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Follow me on Get Glue if you want, but I'm not one to watch TV so I sux at this. 
:X 


(It shows I last checked in 15 days ago. That was probably the last time I watched TV, really.)  


So as I ate Mexican Food and watched Vampires with my honey & worked over my virus ridden Toshiba. 

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It was starting OK, then would freeze up within 3 mints and refuse to do anything other than lock up. So After reading on line and trying both things I could think of (thats a joke) I was armed with restore disks.


WHICH SUDDENLY WENT MISSING! All I could find were old Dell XP restore disks. (??) And there is much debate on if they would even work...

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So I read every tech broad I could find. (From the working MAC, thanks) And found a "Binary” shortcut.  It was reported to restore the Toshiba back to factory/out of the box condition with no disks needed. WTF?? 


The few people who had used this short cut said it worked, so I thought what the hell, the computer has been an expensive paper weight for the last few months anyway...


And Guess what? IT WORKED! 

See?
 

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Now it wiped it clean, I lost everything (But I had backed up on the passport of course). So this was ok.


It rebooted and installed all the plug ins and was working again! I virus  scanned and now am  Deliriously Happy That it is working again.   ;D


The short cut (and I don't know if it will work on any other computer) was as follows:




Turn computer off


Press the power button and hold down for 10 seconds


Press the 0 key (yes, really) and hold down


Follow the instructions and prompts to restore your computer.

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Now I have only 2 icons, lol But I restored from my passport drive and  viola - Working system again!


Please note, I am not a geek tech person, I like technology (as long as it works) but if I can do this so can you...Fix it before you junk it or get ripped off paying $100+ for a f'ing button push.


So anyway, thats how I spent most of my weekend. Next post should be about shoes or clothes or Spain or  something more fun, huh? 


Take care!